Onitsha, Nigeria
Current time in Nigeria
Time zone: WAT (UTC/GMT +01:00) — Africa/Lagos
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -7 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +1 ) Onitsha, Nigeria |
Time zone in Onitsha
Onitsha keeps WAT (1 hour ahead of UTC, UTC+01:00). Its database zone is Africa/Lagos — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Daylight saving is not observed here, so UTC+01:00 is year-round. Any seasonal drift you notice against another city comes from that city, not from Onitsha.
Around 1,553,000 people live in Onitsha, making it the 1st largest of the 75 Nigeria cities covered here.
Onitsha compared with major world cities
Live differences from Onitsha, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Onitsha is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Onitsha is 8 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | same time as Onitsha |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Onitsha is 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Onitsha is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Onitsha is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Onitsha is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Onitsha is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Onitsha is 9 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Onitsha is 4 hours ahead |
Best time to call Onitsha
Usable call slots from Onitsha, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.
| London | 09:00–17:00 in Onitsha | 8 hours overlap |
| Paris | 09:00–16:00 in Onitsha | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Onitsha | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Onitsha | 4 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, Tokyo or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Popular cities
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| London, United Kingdom |
| Paris, France |
| Tokyo, Japan |
| Beijing, China |
| Sydney, Australia |
| Berlin, Germany |
| Moscow, Russia |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Singapore, Singapore |
| Los Angeles, United States |
| Chicago, United States |
| Toronto, Canada |
| Mexico City, Mexico |
| São Paulo, Brazil |
| Mumbai, India |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Seoul, South Korea |
| Istanbul, Turkey |
| Cairo, Egypt |
| Lagos, Nigeria |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Madrid, Spain |
| Rome, Italy |